David Kunkee
The Aerospace Corporation
24 Papers
37 Citations
David Kunkee is an academic researcher from The Aerospace Corporation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Special sensor microwave/imager & SSMIS. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 20 publications.
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Papers
Achieving satellite instrument calibration for climate change
George Ohring,Joe Tansock,William J. Emery,James J. Butler,Lawrence E. Flynn,Fuzhong Weng,Karen St. Germain,Bruce A. Wielicki,Changyong Cao,Mitchell D. Goldberg,Jack Xiong,Gerald T. Fraser,David Kunkee,David M. Winker,Laury Miller,Stephen Ungar,David C. Tobin,James G. Anderson,David B. Pollock,Scott T. Shipley,Alan Thurgood,Greg Kopp,Philip E. Ardanuy,Thomas C. Stone +23 more
TL;DR: For the most part, satellite observations of climate are not presently sufficiently accurate to establish a climate record that is indisputable and hence capable of determining whether and at what rate the climate is changing as mentioned in this paper.
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Geolocation Error Analysis of the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder
TL;DR: Angular and time offsets are derived for SSMIS that reveal the root cause(s) of the geolocation errors are systematic, correctable in the ground processing software, and may be reduced to less than 4-5 km (1-sigma).
Analysis and Characterization of the SSMIS Upper Atmosphere Sounding Channel Measurements
TL;DR: The results presented herein of the SSMIS instrument show that significant hardware and scientific technical challenges arise from microwave temperature sounding of the mesosphere, including the impact of large noise-equivalent temperature difference associated with narrow channel bandwidths and achieving high channel center-frequency stability.
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Achieving Satellite Instrument Calibration for Climate Change (ASIC3) | NIST
James G. Anderson,Philip E. Ardanuy,Gail E. Bingham,James H. Butler,Changyong Cao,Raju U. Datla,John A. Dykema,William Emery,Lawrence E. Flynn,Gerald T. Fraser,Mitchell D. Goldberg,Greg Kopp,Toshio Iguchi,David Kunkee,Stephen S. Leroy,L. Miller,David B. Pollock,Henry E. Revercomb,Joe Tansock,Alan Thurgood,David C. Tobin,Stephen Ungar,Bruce A. Wielicki,David M. Winker,Jack Xiong,Fuzhong Weng +25 more
- 18 May 2006
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Evaluation of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS)
David Kunkee,D. Boucher,G.A. Poe,S. Swadley +3 more
- 01 Jul 2006
TL;DR: On-orbit SSMIS data indicates that the instrument is generally performing to specification, and the presence of unexpected residual calibration anomalies was found during the sensor calibration and validation period and attributed to solar illumination of the warm load tines and reflector self-emission.
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